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CERN press office - press releasesenCERN celebrates 20th anniversary of World Wide Webhttp://press.cern/press-releases/2009/03/cern-celebrates-20th-anniversary-world-wide-web
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<p><figure class="cds-image" id="CERN-HI-0903028-01"><a href="//cds.cern.ch/images/CERN-HI-0903028-01" title="View on CDS"><img alt="NeXT,Tim Berners-Lee,web,www@20" src="//cds.cern.ch/images/CERN-HI-0903028-01/file?size=medium" /></a><figcaption>Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau<span> (Image: CERN)</span></figcaption></figure></p>
<p>Geneva, 13 March 2009. Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee returned to the birthplace of his invention today, 20 years after submitting his paper ‘Information Management: A Proposal’ to his boss Mike Sendall. By writing the words ‘Vague, but exciting’ on the document’s cover, and giving Berners-Lee the go-ahead to continue, Sendall was signing into existence the information revolution of our times: the World Wide Web. In September of the following year, Berners-Lee took delivery of a computer called a NeXT cube, and by December the Web was up and running, albeit between just a couple of computers at CERN<sup><a href="http://press-archived.web.cern.ch/press-archived/PressReleases/Releases2009/PR04.09E.html#footnote1">1</a></sup>.</p>
<p>Today’s event takes a look back at some of the early history, and pre-history, of the World Wide Web at CERN, includes a keynote speech from Tim Berners-Lee, and concludes with a series of talks from some of today’s Web pioneers. The full event will be webcast at <a href="http://webcast.cern.ch/">http://webcast.cern.ch</a>, and relayed via <a href="http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/endirect/0,,4301948,00-les-20-ans-du-web-edition-speciale-.html">http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/endirect/0,,4301948,00-les-20-ans-du-web-edition-speciale-.html</a>. Highlights will be available to broadcasters via a Eurovision worldfeed scheduled for 19:00CET (<a href="http://www.eurovision.net/net/content/worldfeeds.php">http://www.eurovision.net/net/content/worldfeeds.php</a>).</p>
<p><em>“It’s a pleasure to be back at CERN today,”</em> said Berners-Lee. <em>“CERN has come a long way since 1989, and so has the Web, but its roots will always be here.”</em></p>
<p>The World Wide Web is undoubtedly the most well known spin-off from CERN, but it’s not the only one. Technologies developed at CERN have found applications in domains as varied as solar energy collection and medical imaging.</p>
<p><em>“When CERN scientists find a technological hurdle in the way of their ambitions, they have a tendency to solve it,”</em> said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. <em>“I’m pleased to say that the spirit of innovation that allowed Tim Berners-Lee to invent the Web at CERN, and allowed CERN to nurture it, is alive and well today.”</em></p>
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<p>1. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.</p>
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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:00:00 +0000Cian O'Luanaigh875 at http://press.cernCERN launches new youth site on Web’s 20th anniversaryhttp://press.cern/press-releases/2009/03/cern-launches-new-youth-site-webs-20th-anniversary
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<p><a href="http://www.cernland.net/">CERNland</a> brings the excitement of CERN’s research to a young audience aged 7 to 12 through a range of films, games and multimedia applications.</p>
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<p>Geneva, 13 March 2009. Web veteran Robert Cailliau today launched CERNland, a new website for young people, on the occasion of the Web’s 20th anniversary. CERNland has been developed to bring the excitement of CERN’s<sup>1</sup> research to a young audience aged 7 to 12 through a range of films, games and multimedia applications. It is available at <a href="http://www.cern.ch/cernland">http://www.cern.ch/cernland</a>.</p>
<p><em>“I’ve been involved with CERNland from the start,”</em> said Cailliau, <em>“and It’s great to see CERN using the Web to reach out to a young audience.”</em></p>
<p>As the first collaborator of Web-inventor Tim Berners-Lee on his fledgling project 20 years ago, Cailliau has also been involved with the Web from the start. While Berners-Lee developed the technology of the Web, Cailliau spread the word, first at CERN and then further afield.</p>
<p>Young people are an important audience for CERN. There is increasing demand for a physics-literate graduate population, coupled with falling enrolment in physics courses at the university level.</p>
<p><em>“Society needs more physicists across a range of industries,”</em> said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer, <em>“and the way to attract young people in to physics is to engage them early with the kind of discovery-science we do here at CERN, addressing some of the most fundamental questions about our Universe.”</em></p>
<p>CERNland has been developed with the help of professional educators, and assisted by some of the young people it’s been designed to reach. Their input has been incorporated into the site’s design.</p>
<p><em>“It was highly rewarding to let a group of students loose on CERNland,”</em> said the Director General. <em>“It was amazing to see how easily they engaged, and how quickly they learned.”</em></p>
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<p>1. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.</p>
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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:00:00 +0000Cian O'Luanaigh234 at http://press.cern